Including the closely related term climate emergency.
…) ........................................................................... 7 Any other Outsourced Services (Scope 3) .............................................................. 7 3. Climate Emergency Strategy ..................................................................................... 7 Key Objective: .............................................................................................................. 7 Key Principles…
… February 2021 2 1. Introduction 1.1. This purpose of this document is to outline a strategy to reduce Shropshire Council’s corporate carbon footprint and promote adaptation measures to increase the resilience of the Council’s services. 1.2. Shropshire Council declared a climate emergency in May 2019 and agreed a Strategy Framework in December 2019 which established the objective of net-zero…
… the Council to ‘lead by example’, using its direct and indirect influence to foster a positive response to the challenge of the Climate Emergency by other public and private sector organisations. 1.5 Preparation of the Strategy has drawn on community engagement through the Council’s quarterly Sustainability Forum and summarises the best available information about the Council’s current direct…
…, we are facing a climate emergency and urgent action is therefore required. This is a fast-moving area of work and information about climate change, carbon performance and management technologies are changing all the time. In these circumstances it is not proposed to hold a formal consultation process on the Strategy, but instead to treat the corporate Strategy as a ‘live’ document and issue…
… housing and Academy schools are not shown counted within the Council’s corporate carbon footprint. 3. Climate Emergency Strategy Key Objective: Reduce Shropshire Council’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to net carbon zero by 2030 (GHG Scope 1,2 & 3) 3.1. We recognise the impacts that an unstable climate is already having on our services and our duty to reduce our carbon footprint…